Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-18

and lightning will be less to be feared.
How can we make the rainfall great
er and hence stesdier? BY making
evaporation constant and steady. j.
In rough, wooded country, like Iron
and surrounding counties. It seems at
first harder to account for the great
changes that have taken place when
compared with the comparatively
small area of land that has been or can
be cleared. We must notice, however,
that the valleys and hollows were the
places where the moisture was mostly
retained and 1t Is here that the greatest
changes have taken place. Again.
this rough mountain country IL small
compared with the wide stretches Of
open or champagne country that sur
rounds it. The hills and rocky slopes
never retained much moisture aud the
growth upon them could not give or
much when 30 stingily supplied; but
fires and stock have done much TO de-
s.roy the natural grass and to make
the high and broken lands less reten.
tive OF moisture than before, % that
this fact, taken in connection with the
changes made in the valleys, It il NOS
so hard to account for the increasing
drouthiness after all. After the first OF
June, in this latitude, and often before.
we have to depend for rain upon local
evaporations. which are precipitated In
showers upon the localities from
whence they rose, and IL we have moth.
ing to send up we need not look for
anything to come down. Watch the
clouds form In the forenoon and dis
perse toward evening during very
warm weather. As the sun goes up,
heat radiated from the earth drives the
mists and moistures up to the cold re-
gions above. Here clouds form and
pile up till condensation takes place.
The fine spray or particles Of mist or
moisture unite, and, aided by electrical
action, the elements Of moisture, oxy-
gen and hydrogen, combine 90 that
drops too heavy for the densest OF at
mosphere to sustain are formed. II
grasses and timber impede tile dow,
and trees and shrubs shade the soil, it
takes in more moisture. aud then evap-
oration being constant and full soon
saturates the atmosphere 30 O. to bring
about more rainfall.
Trees alone cannot cause rain, but IN
nature they are part Of system that
brings 1t about; hence the mistake We
have made In supposing that the pres
ence Of timber alone will insure fire.
quent and copious showers. We must
make the earth itself more retentive OF
moistuEs by adopting something like
tb6 GOe esystem uf reservoir draina. ~
making ponds and dams, which Can be
utilized for Ash culture aud water
powers.
The system of cultivation we now
practice is poor, wasteful, makeshift
that is devastating the country rather
than developing IT.. 1t 10 . system into
which the cultivators are forced by be-
ing compelled to support this immoral
system of landlordism, and until We
abolish our present system Of slavery
we shall only 60 from bad to worse in
everything.
"From natures chain whatever link you
strike,
Tenth or tenthousandth breaks the chain
alike.O
And SO the fragrant and persistent
of moral laws have brought
upon our heads multiplicity of phys
ical evils. Nature always consents to
good, but is ever deterrent of evil.
FARMER.
Murray vile, ILL.,, Aug. 6. 1887.